[RTTY] Soundcard Query

[Jerry Flanders]

Check your BIOS setup screens to see if you can enable the other 
soundcard. I had a compaq which gave me a problem like yours until I 
discovered I could change things in the BIOS setup.

Your AC97 will probably work fine for ham software apps. I use mine 
AOK with WL and MMTTY.

Jerry W4UK

At 06:27 PM 10/15/2007, Contesting wrote:
>Greetings RTTYers
>
>The system here has an AC97 builtin soundcard, which, while adequate is
>as we all know not exactly top drawer.
>
>As I also run soundcard software [MixW] for Amateur Radio datamodes, it
>has had to perform multiple functions, even though the settings change
>from application to application - something now easily controlled by
>'Quick Mix'.
>
>
>Now the idea was as follows. Install a second soundcard for Datamodes,
>leaving the AC97 for 'muzak', and a friend has kindly supplied me with a
>Soundblaster Live, which has been duly installed.
>
>The only problem is,  that it has disabled the AC97 [seemingly a
>bios/motherboard function, leaving me back where I was. Does any kind
>soul on here know how to 're-enable' the AC97 to allow the simultaneous
>use of both soundcards, allowing me to select which is the 'system
>default' and which I want to use for specific applications/ [MixW will
>allow this switching/selection if only it could see the AC97 as well.]
>
>Thanks
>
>Graham M5AAV
>
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